It is written in the financial statement of the agency established ten years ago in Budva, blessed by the Archbishop Amfilohije, and delivered to the Tax Administration.
That is, the total loss of the agency in the last three years reached 180,000 euros.
According to the Central Register of Business Entities, Amfilohije is the president of the board of directors of the agency.
Currently, the assets of the company are estimated at EUR 79,000 and are 20,000 alower than in the previous year.
Despite the attractive tours offered to the numerous Orthodox believers who come to Montenegro, the agency, according to the financial statement, earned only EUR 6,988, while expenditures amounted to EUR 39,204.
"Odigitria" can only boast positive business results in 2014, when it was in plus of 21,000 euros. Since then, the only ecclesiastical agency has reported a loss, and in 2015, had a minus 22,000. A year later it was 6,382 euros.
On the site of the agency whose offices are located in the Budva settlement "Sveta Petka", built on the church land, thy claim they own a 55-seat bus, a minibus with 25 seats, a van for eight passengers and a ship - the "Holy Nikon Jerusalem" with 45 seats, intended for visits to the monastery at Skadar Lake.
Ship for visits to the monastery at Skadar Lake PHOTO: Agency Odigitrija
The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism issued a license to carry out activities in June 2013, which was signed by the former Minister Branimir Gvozdenović.
"Odgitrija", as stated on their site, has been organizing pilgrimage trips in the country and abroad for ten years. In addition, it is involved in the organization of seminars, symposiums, summer schools, colonies of iconographers, concerts of spiritual music, exhibitions and the sale of ecclesiastical artistic objects.
In addition to one-day excursions across Montenegro, they also offer a tour of the Ovcarsko-kablarskih monasteries, Tvrdoš in Herzegovina, Lepavina and the Nemanjić monastery.
Among the overseas programs, they offer a tour of Sveta Gora, a monastery in Corfu, Meteor, a monastery in Macedonia, Fruška Gora, and churches in Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, Constantinople.
“Vijesti" did not receive any replies from the agency about why their business is bad, bearing in mind that the pilgrimage tours, especially for Ostrog Monastery, are more than popular.
Text by Vuk Lajovic, on October 22nd, 2018, read more at Vijesti
